Filipa Soares (PhD) is an environmental geographer and anthropologist whose research explores the politics of wildlife conservation and forest management and human-nonhuman relations in Europe (particularly Portugal and the UK). She holds a DPhil in Geography and the Environment from the University of Oxford, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and the Economic and Social Research Council, and a BA and MA in Anthropology from the New University of Lisbon (NOVAFCSH). Filipa is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project ABIDE - "Animal Abidings: recovering from Disasters in more-than-human communities", at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa). Past projects included: research on the socio- and biopolitical implications of rewilding for the governance of forest disturbance regimes in the UK (PhD thesis); the sociocultural dimensions of wolf conservation and lynx reintroduction in Portugal (LIFE projects) and of a possible reintroduction of wolves and birds of prey in a Portuguese natural park (MA dissertation, for which she was granted a prize); attitudes towards renewable energies in Portugal, namely wind farms; representations of wolves and birds in Portuguese literature since the 19th century; and representations of owls in Portuguese popular culture. She also participated in two international research projects: "Good germs, Bad germs" (University of Oxford) and "Climates of Migration" (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC)). The latter was part of an internship at the RCC (Munich, Germany), funded by the EU Leonardo da Vinci programme (currently ERASMUS+). She further collaborated with the RCC as a freelance proofreader and translator. Filipa has published 5 academic papers in peer-reviewed journals, co-authored 1 academic book ("Terras de Sol e de Vento", published by Imprensa de Ciências Sociais), and translated 2 issues of the online journal RCC Perspectives. Filipa has also published for a non-academic audience. She co-edited an open-access digital book about owls in Portuguese popular culture, wrote 2 short essays, by invitation, about birds in Portuguese literature for the online magazine "Wilder - Rewilding your days", and a short story about soundscapes of lockdown, with audio, for the online project "The Urban Field Naturalist". She is also a member of the IUCN's Commission on Ecosystem Management.